Overhauling the Gallery

[kristensk]

Webpage Updates: I've finally gotten some major work done on Kristen's SWAT Kat Gallery in the last few days.

Firstly, the actual content stuff:

- Two new guest pics from Jennifer Munoz.
- Posted two more of the drabbles I've done (which have already been posted here)
- Put up a section for the icons I've been making
- Put up my Christmas image and colors

And, everything else:

- Finally have around 50-60% of the site set up to use style sheets, so that, in the future, I won't have to change the color programming on every. single. html. file. again. I tried style sheets the last time I did a major update, and they didn't work. This time, I figured out what I was doing wrong. Predictably, it was something painfully simple.
- I'm working on a version of my main SWAT Kat image gallery that will use image thumbnails.
- A huge chunk of the contents of the main gallery is slated to be sent to the Archive page. I'll probably be cleaning out the Original Characters, RPG and Fanfiction sections as well. Some images will be archived, others will just be removed. A rare few may be re-done.
- I intend to finally get the "What's a SWAT Kat?" and "Poems" sections redone to match the rest of the webpage.

And, I think that's it. Any and all suggestions welcomed.

Personal Chatter: Christmas was good, not without some down moments, but good. For the curious, I now finally have a copy of the Inuyasha Artbook in English (Yes, Seeker, I loved the Japanese copy you got me; I just couldn't read it ), lots of new music to listen to, new winter boots, plenty of reading material and the first set of "The Twelve Kingdoms" DVDs! And, let's not forgot a ton of remaining holiday goodies to munch on.

Comments

Very Nice

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I really like the new look. Your designs are just cool like that. As I am personally artistically challenged I often have to rely moreso on the "design" part of graphic design rather than the "graphic." You have the advantage of being an artist :)

One minor critique, and it's one that will aid you in future updates. For a preview, click here. (Make sure to check the pages in the navigation).

As I was already in the midst of doing this with the MBI site and the SKFAA site, I decided to do a quick little "what if" to see how it'd look.

It's essentially all your code and your style sheet, with a few minor adjustments. This can be done easiest with PHP, but you can also mimic this type of layout with Javascript or iFrames. Let me know if you'd like to approach it this way and I can help you with it (you've got lots and lots of pages :) )

-Matt

Re: Very Nice

[kristensk.livejournal.com]

Wow, Matt... the preview looks awesome! And, it's actually exactly what I had wanted to do with my new layout ideas. Unfortunately, I ran into trouble with my iframes while working on my church's webpage and just wasn't up to fighting with them again. Basically, they looked perfect in Firefox and refused to line up correctly in MSIE. But, anyways, what you've done really looks great, and, yes, I'd love to try it that way if you wouldn't mind showing me. Thanks a lot!